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The spectacular past: popular history and the novel in nineteenth-century France

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Samuels shows how new technologies allowed a cult of the spectacle to pervade the national consciousness of post-Revolutionary France, & argues that the realist fiction of Balzac & Stendhal was a reaction to the spectacular mode of historical representation.

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Cornell University Press
1501729837 / 9781501729836
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
06/08/2018
English
296 pages
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